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Category: Self-determination

Second Call to the Caravan and International Gathering the South Resists! 2023

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To the peoples in resistance and rebellion of the South-Southeast of Mexico To national and international organizations of struggle below and to the left To the world’s human rights organizations To free, alternative or whatever media are called After meeting…

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 Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Anti-systemic Movements, Autonomy, Ayotzinapa, Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, CNI, Collective Rights, Communications, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Delegation to Chiapas, Disappearance, Displacement, Dispossession, Education, Events, EZLN, Festivals & Gatherings, Health, Indigenous Government Council, Indigenous Rights, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico's Social Movements, militarization, National Indigenous Congress, Neoliberalism, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Sembrando Vida, Solidarity, Territory, Uncategorized, Women, Women in Resistance, Women's Rights, Zapatismo, Zapatista Journey For Life, Zapatista Women, Zapatista Words, Zapatistas    

El Sur Resiste: A call to stop the capitalist mega-projects

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A call to organize delegations and participate in El Sur Resiste International Gathering May 6-7, 2023 at the CIDECI/Caracol Jacinto Canek | San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas March 2023 Dear compañerxs: We are inviting you and your collectives and…

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 Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Anti-systemic Movements, Autonomy, Autonomy, Ayotzinapa, Capitalism, CNI, Congreso Nacional Indigena, Delegation to Chiapas, Disappearance, Displacement, Dispossession, EZLN, Festivals & Gatherings, Indigenous Rights, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Maya Train, Megaprojects, Mexico Drug War, Mexico's Social Movements, Mexico's Southern Border, Mexico-U.S. Relations, militarization, National Indigenous Congress, Neoliberalism, Paramilitary Violence, Paramilitary war, Self-determination, Self-Determination, Solidarity, Territory, Uncategorized, Women, Women in Resistance, Zapatismo, Zapatistas    

Autonomy against all odds

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By: Magdalena Gómez On August 9, 2003, in Oventic, Chiapas, the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN, Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional) announced the creation of the caracoles and the good government juntas, in substitution pf the Zapatista rebel autonomous municipalities…

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 Category: Autonomy, Birth of the caracoles and good government juntas, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, San Andrés Accords, Self-determination      Tags: , , ,

Take Action: Pressure the Mexican government stop the paramilitary violence against Zapatista & Indigenous communities in Chiapas

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Statement of Solidarity with the BAEZLN, FrayBa, and  BriCOs Turtle Island – United States of America  July 2022 To the Mexican General Consulates in the United States, We, the everyday people from below, the children, mothers, and elders, Native and…

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 Category: Adherents to the Sixth Declaration, Autonomy, Autonomy, Capitalism, Collective Rights, Counterinsurgency, Disappearance, Displacement, Dispossession, EZLN, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Kidnapping, Maya Train, Megaprojects, militarization, Narco violence, Neoliberalism, Paramilitary Violence, Resistance, Self-defense, Self-determination, Territory    

Oxchuc: Faced with a complicit state that fosters impunity

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[*An update from La Jornada on the situation in Oxchuc follows this opinion piece] By: Magdalena Gómez An ominous week closed for Chiapas and the entire country with the deployment and confrontation of criminal groups with high-powered weapons in the…

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In a climate of siege against NGOs, Dora Roblero assumes the leadership of Frayba

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By: Elio Henríquez, Correspondent San Cristóbal De las Casas, Chiapas Dora Roblero, the new director of the Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas Human Rights Center (Frayba), took office yesterday, in a ceremony in which she reaffirmed her “commitment to walk…

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Post-electoral conflict in Oxchuc, Chiapas

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[Admin: Here are 2 articles from La Jornada about the post-electoral conflict in Oxchuc, an indigenous municipality in Chiapas. The town of Oxchuc is located approximately half-way between San Cristóbal and Ocosingo.] OXCHUC: ONE WOUNDED, HOUSES BURNED IN CHIAPAS CONFLICT…

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Puebla police and the National Guard reclaim Bonafont plant

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Workers clean the Bonafont water plant, reclaimed yesterday morning by members of the Puebla police, with the support of the National Guard, after evicting members of the Union of Peoples of Cholula who had renamed that space as the House…

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 Category: Access to Water, Anti-systemic Movements, Capitalism, Class Struggle, EZLN, Indigenous Rights, National Indigenous Congress, Self-determination      Tags: ,

The Altepelmecalli in Puebla: from a Bonafont plant to a symbol of Resistance

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The peoples’ struggle to stop the extraction of water will complete one year By: Hermann Bellinghausen Cuanalá, Puebla Resistance is breathed when one reaches it. A bottling plant used to operate on this central property in the semi-rural municipality of…

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 Category: Access to Water, Class Struggle, Congreso Nacional Indigena, EZLN, Hermann Bellinghausen, Indigenous Rights, National Indigenous Congress, Resistance, Self-determination      Tags: , ,

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